There is an answer to that and actually there are a few. Each one is different yet they all tie into each other within the culture. On one hand you have dozens if not hundreds of nonprofits like UOCC working there doing everything they can. On another hand you have government overreach and foreign aid in constant conflict with each other. Uganda is considered a developing country and like any other developing country it's stuck like a child with divorced parents between wanting to be a republic and communism. The US and the values we've had has been the "role model" of what they want (setting aside the fact they have a military installed leader). However, thanks to our current sitting democratic president Joe, to cozy up and receive aid from places like the US, UN, and other western governments they put lots of pressure on Uganda to adopt more woke agendas under the premise of "modernization". Those woke agendas don't align with Ugandan culture and in return the US and UN basically tell them to then piss off. Not getting aid from western cultures they then halve to turn to China and Russia for aid. China is more than willing to provide loans and infrastructure projects such as their Belt and Road Initiative which you can google. China builds infrastructure in these small countries knowing full well they will default on the loans. Because of that China essentially owns large swaths of the country and these small counties becomes their puppet/proxy extensions on the international stage. Not to mention that their construction practices have an insanely high failure rate wether its a dam, highway overpass, bridge. It's just bad news all the way around. On our way back to Kampala we ended up passing a UN convoy. Come to find out at that time the Ugandan president had just kicked them out due to their disagreement on modernization so they were moving out to Kenya. Uganda has realty made LGBTQ+ punishable by death. Right before our trip the western media took off with a story of two Ugandan men that were accused of those crimes and it stirred the woke beast of the US to put pressure on Uganda for that, never minding that the victims of both of those men were underage males. The media conveniently left that part out. In essence countries like Uganda really do want to be modern despite their own issues with leadership and dictators. The problem is that you have global superpowers trying to pull them around and it never gets anywhere and it prevents them from ever solving the real problems they have.
I can't help but wonder how nobody has solved these problems yet.
There is an answer to that and actually there are a few. Each one is different yet they all tie into each other within the culture. On one hand you have dozens if not hundreds of nonprofits like UOCC working there doing everything they can. On another hand you have government overreach and foreign aid in constant conflict with each other. Uganda is considered a developing country and like any other developing country it's stuck like a child with divorced parents between wanting to be a republic and communism. The US and the values we've had has been the "role model" of what they want (setting aside the fact they have a military installed leader). However, thanks to our current sitting democratic president Joe, to cozy up and receive aid from places like the US, UN, and other western governments they put lots of pressure on Uganda to adopt more woke agendas under the premise of "modernization". Those woke agendas don't align with Ugandan culture and in return the US and UN basically tell them to then piss off. Not getting aid from western cultures they then halve to turn to China and Russia for aid. China is more than willing to provide loans and infrastructure projects such as their Belt and Road Initiative which you can google. China builds infrastructure in these small countries knowing full well they will default on the loans. Because of that China essentially owns large swaths of the country and these small counties becomes their puppet/proxy extensions on the international stage. Not to mention that their construction practices have an insanely high failure rate wether its a dam, highway overpass, bridge. It's just bad news all the way around.
On our way back to Kampala we ended up passing a UN convoy. Come to find out at that time the Ugandan president had just kicked them out due to their disagreement on modernization so they were moving out to Kenya. Uganda has realty made LGBTQ+ punishable by death. Right before our trip the western media took off with a story of two Ugandan men that were accused of those crimes and it stirred the woke beast of the US to put pressure on Uganda for that, never minding that the victims of both of those men were underage males. The media conveniently left that part out.
In essence countries like Uganda really do want to be modern despite their own issues with leadership and dictators. The problem is that you have global superpowers trying to pull them around and it never gets anywhere and it prevents them from ever solving the real problems they have.
You said the part I was thinking. And it's always the innocent who are left to suffer.@@AaronandTaylor
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Soooo heart breaking. Thanks for your thorough report, honestly & compassion.